building with concert halls several stake conferences were held there which included a full orchestra. He asked for and received permission to include brass instruments. During this time as stake president, Madsen also delivered and recorded a lecture series on the presidents of the LDS Church, from Joseph Smith to Gordon B. Hinckley. References External links Author's website Madsen's BYU speeches Madsen's publications at Deseret Book Madsen's publications from FARMS Articles mentioning Madsen at Meridian Magazine "Video: Truman Madsen - his life and thought," from the Mormon Times Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks (Editors): Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen Truman G. Madsen papers, MSS 7514 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University 1926 births 2009 deaths American Latter Day Saint writers American Mormon missionaries in the United States 20th-century American philosophers Brigham Young University faculty Church Educational System instructors Harvard University alumni Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement Mission presidents (LDS Church) Mormon apologists Patriarchs (LDS Church) University of Southern California alumni University of Utah alumni American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter Day Saints from California Latter Day Saints from Massachusetts Latter Day Saints from Utah Latter Day Saint philosophers